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Pacific Image Electronics MemorEase Plus Film and Slide Scanner for Camera Review
The Memor-ease PLUS is an affordable and simple way to quickly digitize all your 35mm negatives and mounted slides. The PLUS is Magic Touch, a powerful technology that is engaged with a touch of a button to detect and eliminate dust, scratches and other flaws, restoring your image to its original beauty. Magic Touch works seamlessly with the scanning process to ensure that you get the best possible image quality. With a scan speed of approximately 9.5 seconds and a resolution of 1800dpi, the Memor-ease quickly creates high-quality digital files that can be stored to hard disk, CD-R, or DVD-R for archiving, on-line sharing and re-printing. The Memor-ease includes USB 2.0 connectivity, compatibility with Windows XP and Vista operating systems, and includes the award winning Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software for editing, printing, and generating slide shows. It also includes Cyberview CS, Pacific Image's proprietary scanning software, which includes an image adjustment tool that allows users to select color variations from nine settings and view the changes in real-time.- Converts 35mm slides and negatives into digital format. With a conversion speed of approximately 9.5 seconds you can turn your stacks of film strips and slides into digital format in no time. -Easy to use...as simple as taking a digital photo. -Equipped with a high-resolution 5MP CMOS sensor, together with Pacific Image's proprietary uniformity, color balancing and conversion algorithms, Memor-ease creates high-quality images of 1800 dpi from your negatives and slides. -Real-time preview of negative film in full color.
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Pacific Image Electronics MemorEase Plus Film and Slide Scanner for Camera Feature
- Quickly Scans 35mm Films and Slides
- Portable and Very Easy-to-use Digital Solution
- Built-in Auto Dust and Scratch Removal Feature
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Costumer review
78 of 79 people found the following review helpful.
Scanned slides are not crisp. Resolution is very poor and fuzzy...
By Adjuster Jim
I bought this Memor-Ease 35mm film and slide scanner at Costco a few days ago, which is the good news, since they'll take it back without complaints, restocking fee, and other nonsense. I've done a lot of digitizing and scanning, in the past 20 years, photos etc., and I figured I'd try this small scanner since it was inexpensive (~$50) and the box reads that it will quickly scan at "12MB in Tiff, 24-bit color in Jpeg" and has a "5Mpxl CMOS sensor equal to 1800 dpi". Sounded pretty good for what I needed. I ran the software on Win XP with plenty of memory and hard disk real estate, and there was no lag time at all in the usage. Above reviews are correct, it is fast, the software loaded correctly the first time, and the scanning is very straightforward, and relatively quick.
The bad news: However, I couldn't get the scans of my slides to look any better than less than VGA quality, where there was lots of graininess and mosaics in the colors, the scans were all very dark which needed to be lightened on each one (adding a not insignificant amount of time to each post-process - I need to scan several hundred family and work slides), and just not the quality I'd expect from a slide scanner with the published specs, even though its just a cheap one. Faces were especially grainy, and not at all the quality of the initial slides.
Amazon has this listed for $79 which was Costco's regular price without a coupon, and for that price I'd be very unhappy. For $50 this may work for a number of people, but if you want the scans to look just like the slides you are scanning, with the same crispness and clarity, this is not the scanner to use. In deference to tech support, I can't find them with a geiger counter. I have been calling it for 3 days, the line has always been busy during various regular hour calls, so I am not able to ask the company itself if I am just not setting things up correctly. (I am pretty meticulous when it comes to following directions and reading manuals/install sheets, and I believe I have set this up all correctly.) My scans in TIFF mode were very grainy as well. I tried many different settings in JPEG mode, which is the file format I want, but the highest non-compressed JPEG mode is still way too grainy. The Adobe Elements 5.0 software which comes bundled with this worked flawlessly, but software is only as good as the scan it gets fed. I've sent an email to tech support and if they reply to me in a couple of days, and fix this problem, I'll be happy to revise this review to a more positive note. Otherwise, its back to Costco for a refund-o. Hope this helps! - Jim M.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful.
Great little scanner for properly exposed negatives and slides.
By Jack R. Mccollum
I bought one of these with the hope of being able to convert hundreds of slides and negatives we've accumulated over the years. After installing it and digitizing about a hundred negatives so far I'm surprised at the bad reviews it's getting.
I think the problem people are having is that it does not perform miracles. If your negative is out of focus or not properly exposed then you will not have the results you expect. It's very difficult to look at a negative and tell if it's out of focus until you see it on the screen.
The loading of the negs into the holder is a bit difficult until you get the hang of it but I have large fingers so perhaps someone else won't have the same problem. I don't count that against the unit because you would have to handle the thin, light negs with any other unit as well.
The jpegs it produces, even on a medium setting, were outstanding. I was able to zoom in on a face in a snapshot until it filled the screen before seeing pixelization. This device is simple to use and the software included for adjusting the images gives you multiple choices for editing your images so you simply have to point and click to get your best shot. I'm happily surprised!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
A bargain, but with occasional bargain basement results!
By Anthony L. Vallillo Jr.
Another Costco customer, and thank goodness for their returns policy, although I will probably not be taking it back, considering the low price of it. My experience is similar to many of those expressed above:
Installation went without a hitch, both software and hardware. Frankly, the Adobe Elements program itself is probably worth the $40 the whole package cost. My slides are mostly older ( from the 1970's, home-developed Ektachromes, and many were not all that well exposed to begin with. They have also apparently been fading over the years - it has literally been a decade or two since I last looked at them. On some of the slides I experienced the same VGA look that has been referred to above, often at a level sufficient to render the scan useless. What is odd is that for the first second or so, as the unit picks up the image and creates the preview, the image looks fine - no artifacts at all, just the faded or poorly exposed look that would be fixable, to some extent at least, in Elements. But then, before I can actually get it to scan the image, some sort of processing kicks in and the image goes over to the look that has been described above. I would describe it as a cross between a posterization effect and a shift down to 64 color VGA. A few of the worst examples would resemble 16 color - how long has it been since we saw that sort of thing on a computer?! And yes, I go back that far in computing, at least at the flight simulator level!
This generally happens much more with either very faded (or overexposed) slides, or in the dark areas of slides that contain a great deal of contrast between large dark and light areas. A dilatory search of the web indicates that, at least with respect to the high contrast slides, this is a problem with many slide scanners, even some much more expensive equipment! It is called dark area noise, or words to that effect. So I imagine that it would be less than sporting to castigate this unit excessively on that score!
With well exposed slides that are still reasonably unfaded the unit has worked quite well - it is pretty much the equivalent of a good scan from the slide holder on my flatbed HP Scanjet G3010, which although certainly not a high-end unit is a very good one indeed. The full quality jpegs turn out to be around 1.5-3 mb per image, and there seems to be no difference in quality when scanning them emulsion side forward or regularly.
It must be said that no one should use this unit to turn slides, however well exposed and preserved, into anything bigger than an 8x0 print, and not even an 8x10 for any use beyond a perch on the family credenza. But to bring the old family pictures into the digital age it is perfectly acceptable, provided that it works correctly and installs without difficulty. The fact that some reviewers indicate otherwise speaks of a quality control issue at Pacific Image. So you might want to be sure that you could bring a malfunctioning unit back for a refund or exchange.
I myself think I'll keep it! For those few slides that just come out too VGA'y, I can always fall back on the flatbed. Hope you can do the same!
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